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* U.S skater admits to tampering with Canadian rivals boot * Says coach told him to but coach denies allegation * Two coaches and skater to face disciplinary action (Recasts after second coach suspended) By Jennifer Dobner KEARNS, Utah, Oct 5 (Reuters) - United States Speedskating officials suspended a second coach on Friday and the organisation's attorney said disciplinary action was pending against both men and an American Olympic competitor who admitted sabotaging a competitor's equipment.

Saying he acted on orders from national team head coach Jae Su Chun, U.S. short-track speedskater Simon Cho admitted to having tampered with the skates of a Canadian athlete at the 2011 World Team Championships in Warsaw, Poland. The sabotage, which involved skater Olivier Jean, kept his Canadian team, the bronze medalists, from contending for the gold or silver medal. It likely will have larger repercussions, including potential suspensions for Cho and Chun and a negative international image for U.S. Speedskating that will require significant damage control from the federation and U.S. Olympic Committee.

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad said on Wednesday Tehran is capable of neutralizing all efforts to sabotage its nuclear facilities and repeated that Iran is ready for dialogue with the United States. Speaking about possible sabotage of its nuclear facilities, Ahmadinejad told reporters through an interpreter that Iran was "capable of avoiding and neutralizing these efforts. " At a news conference in which he spoke through an interpreter, Ahmadinejad also said: "We are ready for a dialogue (with the United States)

Canadian speedskater Olivier Jean said Thursday he always has suspected his skates were tampered with at the 2011 World Team Short Track Championships in Warsaw. Responding to a Tribune story about allegations U.S. skater Simon Cho had followed his coach's order to tamper with a Canadian's skates, Jean told reporters in Montreal, “At the time we didn't understand what happened. It was hard to explain. We had our suspicions there was sabotage but we had no proof.” A transcript of parts of the interview and an audio file were provided to the Tribune by Speed Skating Canada.

The anonymous and sinister scouting reports arrived at nine schools whose football teams would face LaSalle-Peru High School this fall. According to Thursday's Tribune, the roughly 10-page packets included LaSalle-Peru's offensive and defensive schemes, plus notes on each LaSalle-Peru player's skill level. The packets also listed players' confidential medical histories - and suggested preying on those who had been injured. Not one of those nine recipient schools promptly notified LaSalle-Peru, a school 90 miles southwest of Chicago, that someone had perpetrated this act of sabotage.

MILAN/YENAGOA (Reuters) - Italian oil major Eni said on Sunday there has been an oil spill on its Nembe-Obama pipeline in Nigeria's onshore Niger Delta due to sabotage. "Repair work has started. The wells of Nembe South have been closed with minimal impact on production," a spokesman for the company said. In 2009, Eni said its net output in Africa's biggest oil producer was 128,000 barrels per day (bpd). Sabotage of foreign oil company's infrastructure in the Niger Delta has reduced since an amnesty for militants in 2009, but there has been a surge in oil theft in the region this year.

BOSTON (Reuters) - The powerful Flame computer virus is not only capable of espionage but it can also sabotage computer systems and likely was used to attack Iran in April, according to a leading security company, Symantec Corp. Iran had previously blamed Flame for causing data loss on computers in the country's main oil export terminal and Oil Ministry. But prior to Symantec's discovery, cyber experts had only unearthed evidence that proved Flame could spy on conversations on the computers it infects and steal data.

A spy story worthy of John le Carre began and ended 70 years ago this summer in Chicago. It had classic elements of an espionage tale - enemy agents landed from submarines, explosives hidden in the sand of an East Coast beach, orders written in invisible ink - and Herbert Haupt, a young man from the North Side who participated in the first invasion of the U.S. mainland since the War of 1812. Fellow alums of Waters Elementary School on Wilson Avenue once reminisced for a Tribune reporter about Haupt, who sported a brownshirt uniform in the 1930s, when Hitler had a small but vocal following among German-Americans.